OT: Japan Info shows/stores

Greetings, I m going to Japan in a couple weeks and was wondering if there were good sites to check for shows in Tokyo and Osaka. Also if anyone has any good

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, Sep 10, 2007

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Greetings, I'm going to Japan in a couple weeks and was wondering if
there were good sites to check for shows in Tokyo and Osaka. Also if
anyone has any good record store recommendations that would also be
greatly appreciated. There is a Merzbow show in Osaka that I found out
about through his site but I have to be in Tokyo that day, I also plan
to go to the zeni geva/melt banana/ruins show in Tokyo. Any help/input
is greatly appreciated.

choan1970

Depends what you re into... I m not really aware of anything that covers the full spectrum of this list music, particularly not in English. The Alchemy Records

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, Sep 10, 2007

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Depends what you're into...

I'm not really aware of anything that covers the full spectrum of this
list music, particularly not in English.

For record stores, the following guide is several years old now but
still very useful: http://www.ongakuweb.com/tokyo_guide/index.html
Disk Union and Tower Records in Shinjuku (there are multiple other
Disk Unions around town too), Fujiyama in Sangenjaya, Modern Music in
Meidaimae. If you're hooking up with anyone who can read Japanese and
you REALLY want to go to town on the record shopping, then pick up the
amazing annual Record Map book. 450 pages listing every worthwhile
secondhand record shop in the whole country:http://tinyurl.com/2c9lek

--- In theboredoms@yahoogroups.com, "brian e" <beberlein@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings, I'm going to Japan in a couple weeks and was wondering if
> there were good sites to check for shows in Tokyo and Osaka. Also if
> anyone has any good record store recommendations that would also be
> greatly appreciated. There is a Merzbow show in Osaka that I found out
> about through his site but I have to be in Tokyo that day, I also plan
> to go to the zeni geva/melt banana/ruins show in Tokyo. Any help/input
> is greatly appreciated.
>

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